During Day 4, Air Force One was shot down by Captain Mitch Anderson. After the plane was shot down, President John Keeler was critically wounded. Shortly after the crash, Habib Marwan and his men stole the nuclear football, a briefcase containing the locations and codes of the United States' nuclear arsenal.

President James Heller boarded Air Force One just before 11am on Day 9. He told British Prime Minister Alastair Davies how he would not remember any of the days events, anything at all, even the fact that he had a daughter, Audrey Boudreau who had earlier been killed by Cheng Zhi's mercenary. He was transporting her casket back to the United States.